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P. H. KENDALL & I. W. LADD.

WIGK TUBE FOR OIL BURNERS.

N0. 283,255. Patented Aug. 14; 1883 N. PEYERS. mmulhn n mn wmm nm. 0.4;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRANK H. KENDALL AND FRED \V. LADD, QFWINDSOR, VERMONT.

WlCK-TUBE FOR OIL-BURNERS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 283,255, dated August14, 1883.

Application filed April 4, 1883. (No model.)

' Windsor and State of Vermont, have invented certain new anduseful-Improvements in WVick- Tubes for Oil-Burners; and we herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theacco1npanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2is'an edg'e View, Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, and Fig. 4 is a frontview, of the wick-tube attached to the burner-frame.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates thewick-tube, which is rectangular in form,'and is providedwith theordinary vertical slots in its rear wall, for the toothed wheelsemployed to raise andlower the wick in the wick-t'ube.

The object of the invention is to facilitate the introduction of thewick to the point where the toothed wheels-engage it; and the noveltyconsists in a wicktube having a diagonal porportion at the front of thewickrtube is the novel feature of the invention, and its utility is obvious in this connection.

Having thus described our invention, what The tube extends down into weclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A rectangular wick-tube for lamp-burners, having its lower front wallcut away diagonally, as at a, below the toothed wheels by which the wickis raised and lowered, for the purpose offacilitating the introductionof the wick to the operatingwh eels, substantially as specified. FRANKH. KENDALL.

FRED \V. LADD. \Vitnesses:

CLAYTON O. JOHNSON, JOSHUA G. RIoE.

